Longplayer

Longplayer has been playing for
25 years 050 days 14 hours 02 minutes and 15 seconds

Search & Find Longplayer

Longplayer’s permanent home is in Trinity Buoy Wharf in London. There are also public listening posts around the world, and a continuous online audio stream.

How to find Longplayer

News

Longplayer Listening post launched at La Casa Encendida, Madrid

Longplayer can now be heard at its newest listening post at La Casa Encendida, a unique social and cultural centre in Madrid with an incredible public programme of exhibitions and workshops on cultural, social and environmental issues. Visitors can listen to Longplayer’s composition unfolding amongst the beautiful greenery and scenery of La Casa Encendida’s rooftop,…

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Take part in Longplayer Live

Applications are now open to 18-25 year olds for an opportunity to train and perform as part of Longplayer Live, a 1000 minute performance of a 1000 year long piece of music, taking place at Roundhouse in April. As part of Longplayer’s 25th anniversary celebrations, we are offering a rare and unique opportunity to take…

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Longplayer’s algorithm available on GitHub

Longplayer’s score can take many forms, from graphic representations to computer code. A version written in Python, with the Raspberry Pi in mind, can now be found on Longplayer’s GitHub page. A score composed to play for a 1000 years requires long term thinking and planning across multiple scales. A key consideration for the Longplayer…

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Letters

Since the spring of 2013, Artangel and the Longplayer Trust have been inviting thinkers and writers from a wide variety of disciplines to engage in a chain of written correspondence on the subject of long-term thinking.

Read the Longplayer Letters